As far as I know, as an object gets closer to an event horizon, gravitation time dilation makes it move slower from an outside perspective, so that it looks like it take an infinite amount of time for the object to reach the event horizon. It seems like a similar process should slow the formation of the black hole itself: As the star collapses, its gravitational time dilation make itself collapse more slowly.
This makes me wonder: from a perspective of an outside observer, can a singularity ever form?
E.g. someone on earth observers a massive star collapse, forming a black hole. From his perspective, the mass gets closer and closer, but does it ever form a singularity before the black hole evaporates?
Furthermore, if from a perspective of a mass collapsing into a black hole it’s time slows down and an outside universe “speeds up”, could this mean that the black hole evaporates before me, the mass, can become singularity?
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There are far more qualified to answer but my thought would be no. Not from the perspective of the outside observer anyways.
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